Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jul 2007 11:02 UTC, submitted by alcibiades
Elive, the distribution dedicated to E16 and E17, has reached the magical 1.0 barrier. "This version is ready for the end-users and not just hard core testers. It is a more intuitive easy to use and more efficient system. It has better integration of the file-manager and the mime-types, a nice kernel especially for multimedia and big processes loads, a light weight foot print, much better compatibility with your (possible) Windows system/software, more hardware supported, better graphical recognition, and many more things that you can find in the complete changelog."
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2006-09-19
Yes, I agree.
A simply "Donate" button with a one or two-liner would be more than enough to get those who want to donate.
But instead the download page feels like a sleazy used car salesman.
After reading that page I decided I don't want to have anything to do with elive.
Funny, I put 0 into the donation box and it still opened a paypal payment page.
Secondly, e17 is really taking too long to reach stable status.
If they don't have enough people then that's understandable but if they're like Mplayer, having eternal beta status then that's bad for attracting users.
Most serious users will not use a beta package, especially on production machines so it's important to have a stable release.
And it's important to have a stable release at least once a year.
If it's longer between releases then it makes people nervous as to the status of the project.
Is the project dead, is it reliable, is it going to be around in 6 months when an update is needed? Wil it provide security updates?